Is OER mainstreamed and sustainable?

Peter Reed: Lecturer & eLearning Coordinator, MMUALT-C, Manchester, 2012

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Background

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ReProduce ProgrammeResearch: Awareness, Attitudes & Participation towards Open Ed.

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Horizon Report

Open Content

Time to Mainstream Adoption: 1 year or less

Q. How many people think it’s mainstreamed?

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Current Practices

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Question: how many people have shared content with colleagues? Question: how many people have applied CC? Question: how many people have uploaded to JORUM?

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Current Practices

Education has/is influenced by it’s society

Research demonstrates local informal sharing (Rolfe, 2012, Reed, 2012)

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Mainstream

Without doubt, this needs to change if the movement is to scale and have a significant impact, and for me, one of

the major challenges to the Open Content Movement is in embedding 'open practice' as 'standard practice'

amongst academic staff, if it is to continue beyond funding activity.

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Success

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Subjective

MIT/OCW/OU

Little is known about how much reuse is actually happening

Perhaps mainstream?

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Mainstream

“Mainstream is, generally, the common current thought of

the majority” (Wikipedia)

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Defining

“Digitised materials offered freely and openly … to use and re-use” (Hylén, 2006)

Open Licensing | Open Access | Open Format | Open Software

(Schaffert & Geser, 2008)

“Openness is not like a light switch that is either ‘on’ or ‘off’. Rather, it is like a dimmer switch, with varying degrees of openness”

(Hilton III, Wiley, Stein, & Johnson, 2010).

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Sustainability

Question:

Would you share your everyday teaching materials within JORUM

ORDo you invest more time/effort before

sharing?

If yes, will the masses engage?

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Sustainability

Sustainability reliant upon overcoming key challenges / barriers;

• Reward mechanisms• Time• Skills/Literacies• Processes – Licensing,

uploading, etc

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Sustainability

Until HEIs strategically focus on OER for OER-sake,

which will come at a cost, it can't reach mainstream, after all, would the breadth of institutions currently engaging with OER be the same if JISC/HEA funding

wasn't so plentiful?

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Sustainability

Any Questions?